"Fellow Daoist Su, you truly are extraordinary in temperament. In such perilous circumstances, this girl would have long since been a tangled mess of nerves. Yet Fellow Daoist Su remained unruffled in the face of danger, calmly and coolly observing the surrounding situation."
"Then you swiftly found a way to stall them, distracting them so they had no time to notice the changes a hundred miles away."
"Brilliant! Truly brilliant!"
Mu Yingluo's smile bloomed like a flower. With her cultivation level, if she had deliberately observed the events a hundred miles away, it would not have been impossible for her to detect them.
But when faced with the siege of those two just now, merely keeping her guard up had taken all her attention. She had neither considered nor dared to divide her focus elsewhere.
Yet Su Shi'er had not only done so, but after noticing the situation behind them, he had decisively spoken up and drawn the enemy's attention.
It had appeared as though he were buying Mu Yingluo time to cast her spell, but in truth... he had merely made the two furious opponents overlook the subtle changes behind them.
Their escape this time owed much to the final sword strike from the visitor from Heavenly Capital.
But Su Shi'er's exceptional courage could not be overlooked either.
Otherwise, whether the Sacred Spirit Cult Saintess and the other had struck first or noticed the changes a hundred miles away, either would have been enough to alter the current outcome.
At that thought, Mu Yingluo's gaze toward Su Shi'er abruptly grew fiery, her eyes brimming undisguisedly with admiration and praise.
"Miss Mu, you flatter me. This Nascent Soul of mine is seriously injured. This is all I could do."
"Without Miss Mu holding the field together, there would not have